Hello All
Happy Friday to you!
Holy Bats Batman – It’s already time for Halloween!
Anybody out there like bats? . . . besides me . . .
Can you imagine how many more pestering bugs we would have without bats circling about in the early evening sky having dinner?
Bats travel through sound – through echolocation. They send out the screech and ‘see’ the sounds echoed back to them. Sound leads them.
Sound can easily lead you too. There are different forms of Clairvoyance, different types of intuitive abilities. One type of intuitive ability is called Clairaudience. Spirit, Godsign, your Creator leads you using the SOUNDS around you.
Music can be playing in your head when you wake up to give you clues about your day or week; you notice a song has just begun playing as you start up your car coming home from work and the song answers the question that has been bugging you all day. You are thinking of an old friend and a train whistle blows in the distance. Your friend uses trains to say hello . . . all Clairaudience, all Godsign signals. Your friend calls you the next day saying “I have been thinking about you, meant to call you yesterday.” And you can say, “Oh, it’s alright – I got your Message.”
Bats are used as Godsign™ to clue you in that heaven has sent direction using the sounds around you to guide you. If you start seeing bats, symbols of bats, batman t-shirts and logos seem to be following you around – your Guardians, Angels, loved ones in Spirit want you to listen Up. The sounds of Life are guiding you. Whales and symbols of whales can be used as well as they are led by sound too. They use sonar to know where they are and where they are headed. So whale tails can also be signaling you to listen Up.
Bats have had many sacred meanings to many cultures for as long as we have been around. For centuries the bat was considered powerful healing Medicine by the Aztecs, Toltecs, Tolucan and Mayan peoples. Most Native American tribes believed the bat to be a powerful symbol of rebirth – a shamanistic rebirth – meaning a symbolic death followed by the spirit in celebration, flying into rebirth and new beginnings created by change.
That sounds a bit like our world right now.
Bats are considered symbols and icons of transition. Much like the phoenix that rises from the ashes, bats can symbolize your finding your way through the darker areas of life They can represent your abiliity to control the shadow side of life with a stronger energy inside yourself; born from facing the fears and darkness that may be surrounding you.
Bats hang upside down much as a new born baby does before birth from the womb. They live in the dark, using sound waves echoing out and back – the full circle – to navigate their travel. The forelimbs of bats are webbed and developed as wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.
The success in modern culture of the Batman and Vampire themes in best selling books and movies is the Shadow Archetype. Carl Jung would and did have a field day with the symbolic meaning of bats in our lives, our subconscious and in our dreams – or nightmares.
The bat is sacred in the country of Tonga as they consider the bat a physical manifestation of a separable soul. Bats are closely associated with vampires, who are said to be able to shapeshift into bats, fog, or wolves. Bats are also a symbol of ghosts and death. Among some Native Americans, such as the Creek, Cherokee and Apache, the bat is a trickster spirit.
Chinese lore claims the bat is a symbol of longevity and happiness, and is similarly lucky in Poland and geographical Macedonia and among the Native American Kwakiutl and Arabs.
Your Creator may want to signal to you a time of change, a time of new beginnings – bats may fly into your belfry of life. Maybe you are trying to balance your light and shadow sides – the ‘batman’ symbol may fly past you on the t-shirts of the kids walking by. Symbols and images of bats have become closely associated with Halloween.
Halloween, or the Hallow E’en as they call it in Ireland , means All Hallow Eve, or the night before the ‘All Hallows’ – ‘All Saints’ – ‘All Souls’ Day, observed on November 1. The word ‘Hallow’ meant ‘sanctify’. Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans observe All Hallows Day to honor all Saints in heaven, known or unknown. .
I find it eerily fun Godsign that Bats – seen as a symbol of death and rebirth over centuries of time and in so many cultures, would in our times become so connected to the celebration of Halloween and All Souls Day celebrations sanctifying all of the Spirits of Heaven.
Click here to see Carly sing about bats.
“De Bat (Fly In Me Face)”
Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat don’t come out and fly in me face tonight
Well I come home from a party
And I’m feelin’ a little spaced
And I walk on in the kitchen and
A bat fly in me face
Well de bat come down the chimney
You see he wait in the fireplace
When he hear that I’m getting a little snack
De bat fly in me face
Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat he don’t come out
And fly in me face tonight
De bat he rat got wings
All the children know that
What I need to know from the lord
Is how you get de wings on the cat
They say a bat’s got radar
And he can fly through fan
But what I am afraid of is
That he got another plan
To fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat he don’t come out
And fly in me face tonight
Fly in me face
One thing I forgot to tell you about the human race
Everybody get a little upset when a bat fly in they face
Fly in me face
Fly in me face
Well I hope de bat he don’t come out
And fly in me face tonight
©Carly Simon